Constitution of the State of Texas (1861)

ARTICLE XI.

SECTION 1. All certificates for head-right claims to land,
issued to fictitious persons, or which were forged, and all locations and surveys
thereon, are, and the same were, null and void from the beginning.

SEC. 2. The District Courts shall be opened until the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven, for the establishment of certificates of head-rights, not
recommended by the Commissioners appointed under the act to detect fraudulent land
certificates, and to provide for issuing patents to legal claimants; and the parties
suing shall produce the like proof, and be subjected to the requisitions which were
necessary, and were prescribed by law to sustain the original application for the said
certificates, and all certificates above referred to, not established or sued upon before
the period limited, shall be barred, and the said certificates; and all locations and
surveys thereon, shall be forever null and void; and all re-locations made on such
surveys shall not be disturbed until the certificates are established as above
directed.